‘It will cripple the town’: Scunthorpe ponders life after steel as 2,700 jobs at risk

Business owners say they are already struggling and furnace closures would make trading worse, but some residents say it’s time to move on“Everyone is despondent,” said Roj Rahman when trying to sum up the mood of a town where thousands of people could be out of work and 160 years of iron and steelmaking history could come to a juddering end in just a few months.“The steelworks is the very fabric of Scunthorpe,” he said. “It’s not just the steelworks, it